Understanding How to Teach for Mastery of Geography | Primary

Anthony Barlow
Principal lecturer, examiner and author

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1 hour

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This webinar will provide headteachers, geography leads, teachers and teaching assistants with an understanding of and practical guidance on teaching mastery of geography, enabling pupils to develop a deeper understanding of the subject and move confidently onto the next stage.
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This webinar will provide headteachers, geography leads, teachers and teaching assistants with an understanding of and practical guidance on teaching mastery of geography, enabling pupils to develop a deeper understanding of the subject and move confidently onto the next stage.

The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) reports that an effective approach to mastery learning can, on average, lead to an additional five months’ progress, although admit that making mastery learning work successfully is challenging. Whilst there is no single established view or definition of mastery, what is known is that it is connected with the concepts of shallow and deep learning.

This webinar will explore the concept of teaching for mastery in geography, highlighting the benefits that effective mastery teaching can deliver, and explaining how teachers might set about developing and achieving mastery in the classroom.

Outcome 1:

Understanding what the concept of ‘teaching mastery’ means and how to judge when mastery of a subject has been achieved.

Outcome 2:

Recognising the ways in which the term ‘mastery’ is used, core principles and different approaches to mastery pedagogy.

Outcome 3:

Being able to support pupils to achieve mastery within the specific context of geography at primary level.

Outcome 4:

Recognising how effective mastery teaching can benefit pupils to foster a deeper and more embedded level of learning.

Outcome 5:

Identifying a range of sources of further information and guidance to enhance teaching the mastery of geography.

Anthony Barlow

Anthony is Principal Lecturer and Subject Leader for Geography Education at the University of Roehampton, where he teaches initial teacher education courses as part of the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

Before entering higher education, he taught in London and Bolton for twelve years. At the start of his career, he worked in supply across early years and primary settings, and also taught in KS2. His admiration for, and understanding of early years practice has deepened since, and is an important part of his work now at Froebel College. He is a member of the primary leadership group at the university and leads Roehampton's well-established undergraduate QTS degree programme. He is an External Examiner at a SCITT, and has performed the role at university, too.

Anthony was, until recently, Chair of the Early Years and Primary Committee of the Geographical Association, and is now Trustee. He has been a consultant for academy groups and schools through the Geography Association, and has authored resources and acted as consultant on various projects for TTS, Rising Stars, Scholastic, the BBC and GridClub/Channel 4. Anthony supported the campaign for Humanities 2020 and sat on the previous HMI for geography's panel in the run up to the Research Review (2021).

Anthony co-wrote the book Mastering Primary Geography (Bloomsbury, 2019) and has chapters in books on broad-ranging topics, including effective primary displays, diversity in education and the danger of 'single stories'. He tweets @totalgeography and @EYPPC_GA.